I was a great fan of Harry Potter once it came out, way back in 1997. I was mesmerized by the style of writing, the depth of characters and subtle hints of back stories that J. K. Rowling provided in each of her books. It was like a jigsaw puzzle. I devoured each books on the day they came out.
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What does it take to go up against something that has a solid market, a fanatic following and a brilliant strategist? An excellent foresight and the ability to make the possible out of the impossible. Who else would dare to take on something like the iPhone, that literally marked the era of touch-phones? None other than Jon Rubinstein, CEO, Palm Inc.Known better as the “guy who invented iPod”, Rubinstein worked as the Senior Vice President of Apple’s iPod Division till 2006.
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Here is a simple bash script to download YouTube Videos in mp4 via command line.
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This is a quick post. I was wondering how to get my IP Address without going to popular sites. I came up with this bash script
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Twitter, the microblogging service, has taken over its users like a rage. Apart from being the “sms of the internet”, one can find awesome and extremely useful applications for twitter once you let go the reins of creativity. I don’t want to ramble out on twitter, the service, but thought of some interesting uses for twitter. Here are they.
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No, I’m not going to review bing or write a bing vs. Google article.There are numerous articles and even sites doing it justice. Google is an established player in the search business, with a 64% share in the market. Google grew out of search and has always tried its best for the betterment of the search algorithms involved and the results produced. Microsoft, on the other hand had been bleeding market share over its products to Google for a long time. Ever since Google began releasing its free resources to the general public, starting with gmail, the war had begun. And it was almost always a one sided win, with Google generally taking advantage of its famed simplicity and efficiency combined with funny and humerous ways of introducing products.
Microsoft finally seems to have caught up on what it was lacking a long time. It had atlast begun to listen to its users. Eversince the much hyped Microsoft Windows Vista failed to make any noise, Microsoft have been careful of its products and the general market. Majority of the products that the evil from Redmond had been releasing ever since are quality products, reminiscent of the times that Micro-soft was formed. The new Internet Explorer, Office Suite and the unexpected free software, Windows Live Writer and above all, the latest Windows, Windows 7 have garnered hugely positive reviews and recommendations.
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What makes a GNU/Linux system infinitely useful and productive than a Windows system ? I would say, it is the countless utility programs available as part of the GNU Program. These nifty little demons are both a blessing and curse. A blessing in the sense that, almost all your text processing capabilities are handled smoothly and efficiently by these tools. On the other hand, knowing very little about one tool also has its disadvantages.
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I’ve been using GNU/Linux for almost an year now. But the surprises and features that GNU programs have been showing almost always amazes me. Its like having a monster beast in hand, trained to do only a particular task. As time goes on, you forget that the beast can do much more than it was trained for.
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Bam! and Bing beta was launched. Bing is said to have the potential for net junkies to take a look at the search engine again. And moreover, it is one of the newer sensible offerings from Microsoft. So I headed over to Bing and did a search. Actually, two searches.
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Dealwaiter is the web equivalent of what a waiter does at a restaurant. It waits for orders from you and fetches once it is available. But unlike the tired, human waiter at the restaurant who can get frustrated, demoralized or even offended, Dealwaiter allows you search for your items as long as you want and as hard as you must.
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